Some people seem to have a deep and abiding urge to share their innermost thoughts and feelings. I am one of those people. While I recognize this can be one of my most precious personality traits, I am also aware that it is a tendency that has the potential to cause hurt. Now that I am a grown up, mature 46-year-old lady, I can look back […]
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It’s kinda weird. I love to write, and I love having this little scrap of cyberspace to contain it and broadcast it to anyone who happens to wander through. After all I am a first-born, which automatically makes me a teensy bit of an attention-whore. But lately I can’t seem to squeeze out a post for the life of me. Recently, a good […]
Here are a few things I am REALLY TIRED of seeing on facebook, in blogs, or blog comments or anywhere else on the web for that matter: -The expression “Wow! Just wow!”. -The word “snarky”. -The word “hysterical” to describe anything other than that which is TRULY hysterical, which does not include 99% of that […]
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?” Leo Durocher (American Baseball Player, 1905-1991) Last weekend I was involved in a conversation with a close girlfriend and my boyfriend on the subject of our individual inclinations towards following rules. It was duly noted by my girlfriend that I […]
To my blogging friends, do you ever write something for your blog and then ask yourself, “What’s the point of this anyway? Why would anyone really care? Why even bother to BLOG?“. Sometimes the piece I’m writing gets so long and complicated, and I play with the words so much that the whole thing becomes […]
I have now published seven blog posts. Seven little essays I wrote all by myself. I did not show them to anyone, nor ask anyone’s permission before clicking the “publish” button. As I am writing them, it feels like a bubble of words and emotions is welling up in me. Clicking that button is like popping the bubble as it reaches the surface. It […]
